Local Arts

Choral singing doesn't come any better than this. Brilliant Harmony, 18 Japanese women aged 20 to 36, fully merited their name Aug. 14. Directed by Ko Matsushita, this concert electrified about 80 listeners at St. Bart's Church.

Get your tickets early for what promises to be one of the top concerts to hit the Sunshine Coast this year. Sailors and Songs - A Musical Tribute to 100 Years is not until Sept.

The 28th annual Festival of the Written Arts offered good advice to fellow writers, food for thought to readers and a lot of zingy one-liners to make us all laugh.

The Rakish Angles, a well known and exciting local group of excellent musicians playing instrumental old time/Latin/Gypsy/ bluegrass, have just been nominated for the Western Canadian Music Award Instrumental Album of the Year.

Editor's note: The Coast String Fiddlers (CSF) are in Aberdeen, Scotland for the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Parent chaperone Kathy Wood and some of the participants have been updating Coast Reporter readers of their trip.

Not long ago, singer and songwriter Janet Panic and a few other musical women put on a show at the Sechelt Legion.

It's called the Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival (GLFAF) even though the workshops and juried exhibition of the popular August event take place uphill from the Landing, at Elphinstone Secondary School. But on Saturday, Aug.

On Saturday, from 7 to 9 p.m. Music in the Landing presents a special event, Brilliant Harmony, at St. Bart's Church. This is an outstanding women's choir based in Tokyo and formed in 1988 by leading Japanese choral musician Ko Matsushita.

With the recent release of Grant McKenzie's book, Switch, the Sunshine Coast can claim another stellar author in its midst. A rip-snorting, page-turning, suspense novel, McKenzie's first book is not for the faint of heart.

The Gibsons Public Art Gallery and the Sunshine Coast Grandmothers & GrandOthers are jointly sponsoring a unique textile arts show called Turning the TideOne Ripple at a Time Aug. 18 to 21.